I will take the Ring", he said, "though I do not know the way.

I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?

Far over misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away, ere break of day, To find our long-forgotten gold.

Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities.

I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at.

Silver flow the streams from Celos to Erui In the green fields of Lebennin! Tall grows the grass there. In the wind from the Sea The white lilies sway, And the golden bells are shaken of mallos and alfirin In the green fields of Lebennin, In the wind from the Sea!

The realm of Suaron is ended!' said Gandalf. 'The Ring-bearer has fulfilled his Quest